Re: [Iaxclient-devel] Conferencing In IAX Clients

[Steve K. <st...@st...>]

Steven Sokol wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>Do any of the existing IAX user agents support conferencing?  What seems
>to be the most logical way to accomplish conferencing in iaxClient?
>Does the Asterisk server act as the point of conference (ala MeetMe) or
>is there a strait-forward way to make the client bridge multiple voice
>streams?  Other than tossing everyone into a MeetMe, I can't think of a
>good way to establish a conference -- especially when you take into
>consideration the possibility of multiple codecs in the mix.
>
>Any thoughts?  Am I missing anything?
>  
>

We currently are using iaxclients for a conference, and we do it on the 
server (although we do not use meetme, we use app_conference, which is 
in CVS with iaxclient on sf.net; it does need updating).

If you wanted to mix incoming calls like this in iaxclient, you could 
use a similar approach to that taken by app_conference, but it could be 
CPU intensive to do this for a large conference in uncontrolled client 
environments.